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topic: 3353Interconnected track - how to divide, and a better diverging arrangement
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posted: 13 Nov 2018 08:01

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William Williamson
 
 

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Good morning chaps!

I posted this question on RMWeb and Mr. Wynne suggested here might be more fertile ground for discussion. I've got a relatively simple arrangement of trackwork in my station throat, which I have divided for ease of construction into three meta arrangements of A, B and C:

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I tink A and C are relatively straight forward - simple B6 crossovers though C has an extra B6 interleaved.

The issue appears to be with the formation at B - as Martin has pointed, it is not possible for both turnout routes to be occupied simultaneously (in model form) without there being a conflict.

Now, this isn't something that keeps me up at night: I'll be a sole operator and if not I find it hard to believe that this will be a frequent enough conflicting movement to cause problems (seeing as the bottom right road out of the junction is a carriage siding).

However, as I've yet to lay track and everything else is ramrod-straight B6's, I thought this might be an interesting opportunity to re-work them if they fit into the rest of the geometry.

Option 1 is to leave them as-is.
Option 2 is to replace them with B8 turnouts which works, but neccesitates an S-curve on the carriage road to bring it out to the correct separation (to be honest, this may be required anyway - I gather it would require a 10' way as opposed to the 6' way?)
Option 3 is to adjust the geometry with a more 'custom' layout.

Option 3 is something that Martin W. suggested using contraflexed (!?) turnouts to maintain the geometry and spacing, but it's way over my head.

I would be grateful for any advice or help - I have attached the plan with Option 2 in-situ, but as long as the top/rearmost track centre of formation A remains at roughly 15 to 16"  and formation C stays where it is - I'd be really excited to see what we can come up with for formation B.


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posted: 13 Nov 2018 13:34

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John Palmer
 
 

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As I haven't seen the thread in which Martin drew attention to a conflict, I am not entirely sure what the nature of that conflict is.

What does seem clear is that a movement to/from what I take to be the carriage road (PL156) isn't going to be possible whilst a movement out of the platform avoiding line (PL184) is in progress, and vice versa.  Perhaps this is the conflict that has been identified.

If that's accepted then a posible solution would be to make the carriage siding exit part of a tandem.  That tandem can be formed either in TL139 or in TR177.

Here's a box file for one such option
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posted: 13 Nov 2018 13:36

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John Palmer
 
 

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...and here's a box file for the other option.

Both of these are pretty rough and ready, as they are only intended to identify some possible options, but they might represent a basis for further development.
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posted: 13 Nov 2018 13:44

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William Williamson
 
 

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Thanks John, the issue was if TR173 (and the turnout below it - label blocked in my screenshot and I don't have templot at work unforutnately) were both set to the curved routes then stock could potentially physically hit each other. PL184 is the carriage road.

I'll check out your box files when I get home - thank you so much for looking into it for me.

While doodling on a napkin I wonder if PL156/PL184 should come off the same turnout as per a 'normal' goods yard - this would reduce the track congestion on the up main (PL153-TL139-TR113-etc.)

posted: 13 Nov 2018 15:06

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John Palmer
 
 

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William Williamson wrote:
... the issue was if TR173 (and the turnout below it - label blocked in my screenshot and I don't have templot at work unforutnately) were both set to the curved routes then stock could potentially physically hit each other. PL184 is the carriage road.
Ah, well in that case I would definitely think in terms of lengthening the leads on TL186 and TR260  so as to reduce the end throw on vehicles passing over these connections, as I would expect that to ameliorate or even eliminate such a conflict.  This may involve the toe of TL186 becoming repositioned adjacent to a platform face, which in turn could have implications for the signalling/locking of facing movements over these points.

posted: 13 Nov 2018 15:28

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Rob Manchester
 
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William's original RM post is here for anybody interested.

Rob


posted: 15 Nov 2018 07:35

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William Williamson
 
 

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Thanks Rob! The more I think about it, the more I reckon that a consolidated entry to the 'old goods yard' (i.e. a CCD siding and a carriage siding) makes more sense. I don't want to bring the front-left tracks too close to the front, but I wonder if a large S curve will give me the geometry I need.

Life has gone a bit mad in the last couple of days, but I think that may be my next port of call.

The added benefit is that I'm introducing some curved turnouts, which are sooo pretty.

posted: 15 Nov 2018 16:10

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi William,

There are a few issues with your plan:

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Omitting switch timbers isn't generally an option because they need to be at specific locations for the special switch chairs to fit properly. Where you want to insert a switch close into the back of a V-crossing like this, some ingenuity in the timbering is needed.

In this case you have a turnout with a regular type V-crossing, so you can lock the V-crossing in place (CTRL+4 peg position) and then change the lead length of the turnout by adjusting the crossing entry straight a little. By such means you can get the switch timbers interlaced between the crossing timbers on the turnout above to avoid the conflicts. Then a bit of skewing or shortening of those timbers (without losing the special chair positions on them) should provide a usable result:

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Here you have replaced a B-6 turnout with a longer B-8 turnout, but without making extra space for it. The result is that you have lost the minimum 6ft way (see the orange spacing-ring tool), and you have a severe misalignment at a template boundary:

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The turnout in that screenshot appears to be forming a crossover between running lines. In such a situation it would be better as a right-hand turnout, so that the main road forms a smooth running line, and the turnout road forms the crossover road.

Your intended track plan seems to be in a state of flux. If you can post a finalised design intent, we can help you fix issues such as these.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 15 Nov 2018 20:40

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William Williamson
 
 

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Hi Martin,

Apologies, I didn't realise my trackplan needed to be in flux until your kind advice that there would be a crash if certain moves were done in parallel.

Rather than trying to fit both the bottom and second-to-bottom sidings directly, I've reworked so they both come off a single road - I think this looks more realistic and definitely adds some breathing room.

Since I'm laying my own pointwork, I made the two leftmost turnouts curved rather than ramrod straight - I think it looks nice but not sure of how practical it would be to lay and how the stock would fare over it. Here's a birds eye view of the plan:
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TR218 formss the entrance to 'the old goods yard', withTR227 dividing it into the coal depot (bottom) and carriage siding (middle). The carriage siding now has a 10' way between it and the platform road.


TL235/236 are the curved entrance turnouts which weren't strictly required but I think I want to include just to smooth the geometry out a bit and to look nice with stock snaking through

The idea with PR240 is to have it leading towards the baseboard front to represent the rest of the area with the coal bins/etc. on the 'aisle' side.

The only part of the plan I'm not really excited about is the S-curve created by PL239 and PL232 - it's required to get the requisite clearance for the gravel shed (ablve TL236) and so far built of separate 'constant radius' curves. I'm sure there's a better way but I don't know how to do it.

The timbers around TL186 remain unchanged but I'm sure they need work...

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posted: 16 Nov 2018 00:19

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John Durbetaki
 
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From an aesthetic point of view, it would seem to me that if you moved TL190 to the right along the curve, that will bring the exit up some and you can straighten out PL2332 and PL231. Might not be much of a move, maybe 5-ish ties just eye-balling it...

John

posted: 16 Nov 2018 09:59

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Martin Wynne
 
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Hi William,

Your first turnout on the left (TL235) has a turnout radius of 27" which is distinctly sharp for EM. Generally when curving turnouts with similar flexure, you need to start with something larger than a B-6.

Here I have used a B-7 instead, and eased the curving radius a bit, which gets the turnout radius to a more respectable 42":

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I also changed turnout A to a right-hand turnout, so that the turnout road forms part of the crossover, instead of the running line. This allows the running lines to form the ruling curves, with turnouts branching from them, in a more prototypical manner.

Here I replaced the turnouts with plain track, to illustrate that. The grey tracks are your originals:

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The curves include transition curves, which in some cases stray into the turnouts. That's not entirely prototypical, but in fitting a model into a small space is sometimes unavoidable. Once the template is printed, the fact that the curve through it is on a transition makes no practical difference to model construction.

Would you like me to finish this and post the .box file? There isn't much point if your ideas are still in flux. For example I am mystified by your reference to a gravel shed? I have the tracks entering on the left as running lines at normal 6ft way. However I have a horrible feeling the upper track is in fact a siding, in which case it needs to be at 10ft way, entered with a right-hand turnout.

cheers,

Martin.

posted: 16 Nov 2018 11:01

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William Williamson
 
 

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Thanks both!


Martin Wynne wrote:
Hi William,

Your first turnout on the left (TL235) has a turnout radius of 27" which is distinctly sharp for EM. Generally when curving turnouts with similar flexure, you need to start with something larger than a B-6.

Here I have used a B-7 instead, and eased the curving radius a bit, which gets the turnout radius to a more respectable 42":

2_160434_510000001.png2_160434_510000001.png

I also changed turnout A to a right-hand turnout, so that the turnout road forms part of the crossover, instead of the running line. This allows the running lines to form the ruling curves, with turnouts branching from them, in a more prototypical manner.

Here I replaced the turnouts with plain track, to illustrate that. The grey tracks are your originals:

2_160434_510000000.png2_160434_510000000.png

The curves include transition curves, which in some cases stray into the turnouts. That's not entirely prototypical, but in fitting a model into a small space is sometimes unavoidable. Once the template is printed, the fact that the curve through it is on a transition makes no practical difference to model construction.

Would you like me to finish this and post the .box file? There isn't much point if your ideas are still in flux. For example I am mystified by your reference to a gravel shed? I have the tracks entering on the left as running lines at normal 6ft way. However I have a horrible feeling the upper track is in fact a siding, in which case it needs to be at 10ft way, entered with a right-hand turnout.

cheers,

Martin.
Gosh martin, your lines make mine look like total garbage :)

I have simplified the track plan further (in addition to the common entrance to the 'goods yard' I just couldn't find a proper justification for a gravel shed to be connected to a platform line! Maybe this is the power that Beeching craved? :)) and now I think I'm in a good position to move forward.

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If you could use your magic to put those smooth lines onto the attached box, I think I'd be in business! That would be super helpful - or alternatively if you have any suggestions I would gladly hear them.

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posted: 16 Nov 2018 12:58

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William Williamson
 
 

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Martin, I've decided to just do this in 00 for now to get SOMETHING down, and will revisit EM once I've got some time under my belt. The other boards for this layout would be great opportunities for 00-SF, but I will cross that bridge when I come to it.

Thank you all again for your help and advice, and I'm sorry for disturbing you!
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posted: 16 Nov 2018 13:05

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Martin Wynne
 
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William Williamson wrote:
Martin, I've decided to just do this in 00 for now, and will revisit once I've got some EM under my belt.
Hi William,

OK. I think I mentioned flux. :)

cheers,

Martin.



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